By “WandaVision” creator Matt Shakman is the man in charge of the upcoming third attempt at getting the “Fantastic Four” on the big screen.
The new film, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” begins production tomorrow in the UK with the cast having shown up at Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend to tubthump the film.
Some test footage was shown offering a glimpse of the tone of the new film, with much of that footage seemingly showing the team ahead of their space mission that leads to them getting their powers.
Don’t expect that in the final film though as Shakman tells EW that one thing you won’t see here is an origin story as they want to avoid those tropes:
“One of the things we decided early on was not to do an origin story. One of the ways we’re making it our own thing is we’re not telling the story of them going up and being changed, and starting our story [there].
There’s a lot of well-known narrative that leads into that moment, right? And then you’re making up your new story starting basically at the end of the first act, and we thought, ‘Well, let’s just start this thing off on a completely new foot. So we are beginning after that’.”
The new film stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer and Ralph Ineson as Galactus. Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, and Natasha Lyonne also star.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” hits cinemas on July 25th 2025.
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